I don't know how you get a meteor strike out of this. I simply see some preliminary dirt fly into the air prior to the explosion. I assume that came as a result of preliminary venting just prior to the big blow.

Look at the glare that goes across the camera around 6-7 seconds in before the asphalt and chunks come up.

I see the vertical line you are refering too. I guess I attributed it to a reflection of light off of the passing cars.

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I never believed it until I saw it. everyone here was saying a meteor strike and I was LMAO. Guess the joke is on me. I wonder if there will be more video coming out as well. Good thing the FBI did not take it, or we would wonder about the conspiracy for years, or some would anyways.

The stones are the debris from the gas line rupturing prior to the explosion. The line is under pressure, the pipe blew out and the pressure thru up the debris. you can see the cloud of gas following the debris, the when a spark from the debris ignites the gas, you can follow the ignition of the gas cloud. This pipe was over 50 years old and had no corrosion protection, similar to over 65% of the gas lines buried throughout the US.

The stones are the debris from the gas line rupturing prior to the explosion. The line is under pressure, the pipe blew out and the pressure thru up the debris. you can see the cloud of gas following the debris, the when a spark from the debris ignites the gas, you can follow the ignition of the gas cloud. This pipe was over 50 years old and had no corrosion protection, similar to over 65% of the gas lines buried throughout the US.

Nothing spacey. It is stuff coming from a ground explosion. Explosions with gas fueled fire make a woosh sound. Stand next to a gas heater when it ignites to heat a house and you will hear a mini woosh. Sadly the witnesses heard a huge woosh before the fire exploded.

After watching it over and over again I see an impact further back behind the dark roof line with an almost simultaneous gas release in the foreground followed by the explosion. It looks to me like the meteor impact was about 100 feet further back. The impact shock could well set off a nearby gas rupture.

I have been in the 'it was a meteor' camp. People have said if it were a meteor then more people would have seen it. That's not true. It was during the daytime and people don't seem to look up a lot. Here's a video of a daytime fireball in a clear blue Texas sky that streaked across the sky during a marathon. Nobody seemed to notice and the cameraman seems to have just gotten a lucky shot.